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With all that's being said about the NSA, and how we should add self-restraint, with all that the government is admitting about the current state of the NSA being bad, why not? If …

Science fiction novel about an open-source country.

The NSA had been spying on mathematicians, and discovered their greatest secret. Pi and e are actually switched. No, really, pi is wrong.

I'm not sure if I am making a mistake, but I couldn't use the command listed in order to clone the repository. I'm using windows, with git installed, and I received the error: "Per…

Tha a is raelly closa to tha e on tha dvorek kayboerd, end it mekas for e mora common misteka. ;)

And here I was thinking New Myspace was the New Myspace :D.

Why not link them the other way? The article claims that individuals who are stronger physically will try to claim socio-political highground, but it seems much more realistic to m…

Role models exist for a reason, and that is that we can do our best to be like them. It's not like we're arbitrarily judging character just for the hell of it. I know that I would …

The level of 'approximation' involved here would be like making a square that was .0001% too long on one side. You wouldn't be able to tell at all. The page you listed also says: "…

Exactly my point. Just because someone else is doing the work (or, in this case, something else) doesn't mean that the work isn't the first person's art. And yes, I suppose, anythi…

Renaissance artists didn't do much actual painting. They just sketched what they wanted, mixed colours, and had students do the rest. This is basically the same thing, only with ab…

That's a Douglass Adams quote, isn't it?

I rather did not, and for two reasons: Firstly, the post that I was attached to that was offering the same joke, almost precisely, was getting very positive attention. Secondly, af…

You know, I completely accept that. \grin.

Erm, I seem to be getting a negative response. This is, I hope you are aware, a joke that carries on the joke of the post above it. I do not actually agree with the sentiments I ha…

Rather! Just think of it- we've already lost Christmas, April Fools, New Years, and probably a few others to the unstoppable force of PR departments. The nerve of these people! Jus…

But the takeaway here will not be "this is something that Steve Jobs did that was nice," it will be "OH WOW STEVE JOBS WAS A SAINT." And that, sir, is what we call the fundamental …

Yes, quite. Sorry. Point being though, you can own an intellectual property even if you can't own the parts and tools that go into it.

You can't patent atoms, but you can patent compounds made of those atoms, like a new plastic. Or, if those compounds are already open, you can patent products that combine those co…

Though they do share a whole lot. It would be like making a phone rectangular with a touch screen and a home button. Obviously everything inside your phone is completely original, …

This is stupid and nobody likes it. Go back to your terrible life as a terrible person who nobody likes. But in all seriousness, I think you do have to take the negative with the p…

Well, if they're totally equal, sans sugar, then the obvious reason to choose DuckDuckGo is for privacy's sake. No sense sending personal information to Google when DuckDuckGo will…

This is the first time I've seen this argument against linkbait headlines, and I happen to like it a lot. I've never actually considered headlines from a psychological perspective.…